Echoes from the Dead

'An impressive debut novel' The Times

'Fantastic' Guardian

Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that point inexorably to a local man called Nils Kant, known to delight in the pain of others.

Evocative and haunting , with a subtle sense of menace that grows with each page

An impressive debut novel...Theorin's excellence in conveying bleak atmosphere is matched by his insight into sensitive family relationships

Fantastic ... Theorin's prose is wonderfully descriptive

There is warmth in Theorin's narrative and the gradual piecing together of the story leads to an unexpected denouement

Sheer storytelling grip such as this is relatively rare. A particular strength is the evocation of locale and atmosphere here; it is masterfully done

Throughout his life, Johan Theorin has been a regular visitor to the Baltic Island of Öland. His mother's family - sailors, fishermen and farmers - have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island's rich legacy of strange tales and folklore. A journalist by profession, Johan is currently working on the third novel.